Following the launch of the consumer-class IronWolf and SkyHawk HDDs earlier, Seagate has now launched its IronWolf Pro series for small and medium enterprises, including the 10TB version as the flagship offer.

After cramming the 2.5-inch 5TB BarraCuda HDD inside an aluminum enclosure, Seagate has moved to the enterprise market, announcing its newest IronWolf Pro 10TB HDD for "small-to-midsize enterprises".

Designed for NAS applications and built to help small-to-midsize enterprises better manage the massive amounts of data, the IronWolf Pro HDD series can handle extreme workload rates of up to 300TB, fast access and comes standard with a two-year Seagate Rescue Data Recovery Service Plan.

According to Seagate, the NAS market is expanding at an impressive rate and is expected to reach US $7 billion in 2017, and with NAS-oriented features like AgileArray, which enhances performance for file-sharing, backup and private cloud environments, drive balancing by using dual-plane balance and rotational vibration sensors, RAID optimization for increased performance and advanced power management, the IronWolf Pro series should be the best choice.

Both QNAP and Synology, the biggest names in the NAS industry, have expressed their excitement with the Seagate IronWolf Pro series.

The Seagate IronWolf Pro series will be available in 2TB, 4TB, 6TB, 8TB and 10TB capacities, are based on standard 3.5-inch form-factor, use SATA 6Gbps interface, spin at 7200RPM, pack 256MB of cache (128MB for 2TB and 4TB versions), have a MTBF of 1.2M hours, feature Rotational Vibration (VR) sensors, have both hot-plug and support for 16-bay NAS and are backed by a 5-year warranty.

Performance-wise, Seagate claims these offer maximum sustained transfer rate of 214MB/s (195MB/s for 2TB version) and average latency of 4.16ms as well as have a reliability rating at 24/7 operation (AFR) of 0.73 percent.

Unfortunately, Seagate did not provide any details regarding prices but it is only a matter of time before we see these bundled with some high-end NAS devices from QNAP and Synology.

Seagate has finally entered the SSD race. The hard drive maker announced its first series of SSD products aimed at consumer and enterprise markets. The move comes as no surprise, it was in the works for quite some time and Seagate is still hiring SSD engineers at its design centre in Colorado.

The Seagate 600 SSD is the company’s first mainstream 2.5-inch SSD. It will ship in capacities up to 480GB and some versions will be just 5mm thick, which means they should be perfect for Ultrabooks. It’s a SATA 6Gbps drive and Seagate promises top notch performance. The high end Seagate 600 Pro takes it all a notch further, with industry leading IOPS/watt and power consumption of just 2.8W. It should be good for cheap servers and perhaps enthusiast rigs.

The Seagate 1200 is a SAS 12Gbps drive aimed at enterprise users. Once again Seagate claims it will deliver the ultimate in speed and practically be best in class.

In addition to 2.5-inch drives, Seagate also cooked up a PCIe card, the Seagate X8 Accelerator. The company claims it will be the fastest thing around, with twice the performance of the closest competitor. With capacities up to 2.2TB and 1.1 million IOPS, it sounds like a beast. Seagate says it is closer to DRAM than SSDs in terms of performance.

There is still no word on pricing or availability, although we are sure the X8 will cost an arm and a leg, so don't get your hopes up.